Four University of Southern Indiana women’s cross country runners captured All-Conference honors as the No. 11 Screaming Eagles captured their fifth consecutive Great Lakes Valley Conference title Saturday morning at the GLVC Championships.
Sophomore Emily Roberts (Fredericktown, Ohio) and senior Jessica Reeves (Midland, Michigan) finished second and fourth, respectively, as the Eagles claimed their league-record 10th GLVC championship and their seventh in the last eight years.
Roberts completed the six-kilometer course in 21 minutes, 24.10 seconds, while Reeves finished in 22:08.00. Lewis University junior Amanda Farrough won the race with a time of 20:51.20.
Junior Cathryn Peter (Tell City, Indiana) and sophomore Jessica Lincoln (Palatine, Illinois) finished 14th and 15th, respectively, to join Roberts and Reeves on the All-GLVC team.
Freshman Hope Jones (Cumberland, Indiana) rounded out the Eagles’ top-five finishers with an 18th-place performance, while senior Jamie Adkins(Owensboro, Kentucky) and sophomore Bryce Cutler (Benzonia, Michigan) finished 20th and 35th, respectively, to round out the Eagles’ top-seven.
As a team, the Eagles finished with 53 points, 15 ahead of No. 15 Lewis, which was second with 68 points. The University of Wisconsin-Parkside, this year’s host, finished third with 83 points, while No. 13 Bellarmine was fourth with 94 points. The University of Indianapolis rounded out the top-five teams with 101 points.
USI Head Coach Mike Hillyard earned two more GLVC Coach of the Year honors, bringing his career total to a combined 22, after le
